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The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity מאת Heather Levi The World of Lucha Libre is an insider's account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican version of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe many live events and interview wrestlers, referees, officials, promo...

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The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture (Series Q) מאת Joseph Litvak In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the par...

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Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes (New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology) מאת Roland Boer In this provocative and necessary work, Roland Boer, a leading biblical scholar and cultural theorist, develops a political myth for the Left: a powerful narrative to be harnessed in support of progressive policy. Boer focuses on foundational stories in the Hexateuch, the first six books of the Bibl...

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Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 Sunaina MarrMaira

Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 מאת Sunaina MarrMaira In Missing, Sunaina Marr Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) at a particular moment in the history of U.S. imperialism: in the years immediately following September 11, 2001. Drawing on...

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Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism (Post-Contemporary Interventions) מאת Fredric Jameson Fredric Jameson is one of the most influential literary and cultural critics writing today. He is a theoretical innovator whose ideas about the intersections of politics and culture have reshaped the critical landscape across the humanities and social sciences. Bringing together ten interviews condu...

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Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880–1955 מאת Donna J.Guy In this pathbreaking history, Donna J. Guy shows how feminists, social workers, and female philanthropists contributed to the emergence of the Argentine welfare state through their advocacy of child welfare and family-law reform. From the creation of the government-subsidized Society of Beneficence ...

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Hans Staden's True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil מאת Hans Staden In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured by the Tupinambá, an indigenous people who had a reputation for engaging in ritual cannibalism and who, as allies of the French, were hostile to the Port...

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Art for a Modern India, 1947–1980 (Objects/Histories) Rebecca Brown

Art for a Modern India, 1947–1980 (Objects/Histories) מאת Rebecca Brown Following India’s independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an “Indianness” representative of their newly independent nation, while connecting to modernism, an aesthetic then understood as both universal and presumptively Western. These...

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Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema מאת Kristen Whissel In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the late 1890s and the eve of the First World War moving pictures helped the U.S. public understand the poss...

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Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs מאת Kane Race On a summer night in 2007, the Azure Party, part of Sydney’s annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, is underway. Alongside the party outfits, drugs, lights, and DJs is a volunteer care team trained to deal with the drug-related emergencies that occasionally occur. But when police appear at the gates w...

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The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo (American Encounters/Global Interactions) Lauren Derby

The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo (American Encounters/Global Interactions) מאת Lauren Derby The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator’s Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of...

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National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) מאת Christopher L. Hill Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, Christopher L. Hill reveals how the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. The three countries, occupying widely different positions i...

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Psychology of the arts Hans Kreitler

Psychology of the arts מאת Hans Kreitler

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Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity מאת Monica L.Miller Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed slave who sometim...

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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) מאת Loïc Wacquant The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction ...

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Half-Life of a Zealot מאת Swanee Hunt Swanee Hunt’s life has lived up to her Texas-size childhood. Daughter of legendary oil magnate H. L. Hunt, she grew up in a household dominated by an arch-conservative patriarch who spawned a brood of colorful offspring. Her family was nothing if not zealous, and that zeal—albeit for more compas...

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Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema (Post-Contemporary Interventions) מאת Linda Schulte-Sasse In this persuasive reversal of previous scholarship, Linda Schulte-Sasse takes an unorthodox look at Nazi cinema, examining Nazi films as movies that contain propaganda rather than as propaganda vehicles that happen to be movies. Like other Nazi artistic productions, Nazi film has long been regarded...

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A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt מאת James Woodard A Place in Politics is a thorough reinterpretation of the politics and political culture of the Brazilian state of São Paulo between the 1890s and the 1930s. The world’s foremost coffee-producing region from the outset of this period and home to more than six million people by 1930, São P...

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Crossing the Water: A Photographic Path to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World מאת Claire Garoutte In the summer of 2000, two award-winning photographers, Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh, were researching Afro-Cuban religious practices in Santiago de Cuba, a city on the southeastern coast of Cuba. A chance encounter led them to the home of Santiago Castañeda Vera, a priest-practition...

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New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China מאת Hairong Yan On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China's Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Roman letters, the women were returning home from their jo...

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Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Refiguring American Music) מאת Deborah Paredez An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the 1995 death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Pérez. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, Web sites, monuments, biographies, murals, look-alike contests, musicals...

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Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) מאת Arturo Escobar In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of enga...

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Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850–1930 מאת Nara Milanich In modern Latin America, profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality. Nara B. Milanich argues that social and legal practices surrounding family and kinship have helped produce and sustain these inequalities. Tracing families both elite and plebeian in late-nineteenth...

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Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema מאת Kristen Whissel In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how, between the late 1890s and the eve of World War I, moving pictures helped the U.S. public understand the possibilities and...

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Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States (American Encounters/Global Interactions) מאת Micol Seigel In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazil...

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Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata: The Jaramillista Movement and the Myth of the Pax-Priísta, 1940–1962 מאת Tanalis Padilla In Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata, Tanalís Padilla shows that the period from 1940 to 1968, generally viewed as a time of social and political stability in Mexico, actually saw numerous instances of popular discontent and widespread state repression. Padilla provides a detailed histo...

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Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things מאת Ann LauraStoler Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stole...

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Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities (New Americanists) מאת Laura Lomas Translating Empire reveals how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism: a critique that prefigures many of the concerns--about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity--animating American studies today. During the 1880s and early 1890s, th...

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Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala מאת Diane M.Nelson Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning “to count, figure up” and “to settle rewards and punishments,” reckoning promises accounting and accoun...

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National History and The World Of Nations: Negotiations of Space and Time in Japan, France and the United States מאת Christopher L. Hill Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, Christopher L. Hill reveals how the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. The three countries, occupying widely different positions i...

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The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory מאת Catherine S.Ramírez The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant. Or she donned the same style of zoot suit that her male coun...

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The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution) מאת Roger Chartier Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultura...

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Twenty Theses on Politics (Latin America in Translation) מאת Enrique Dussel First published in Spanish in 2006, Twenty Theses on Politics is a major statement on political philosophy from Enrique Dussel, one of Latin America's--and the world's--most important philosophers and a founder of the philosophy of liberation. Synthesizing a half-century of his pioneering work in mo...

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Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism מאת Rebecca L.Stein In Itineraries in Conflict, Rebecca L. Stein argues that through tourist practices—acts of cultural consumption, routes and imaginary voyages to neighboring Arab countries, culinary desires—Israeli citizens are negotiating Israel’s changing place in the contemporary Middle East. Drawing...

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Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity (Console-ing Passions) מאת Brenda R.Weber In 2004, roughly 25 makeover-themed reality shows aired on U.S. television. By 2009, there were more than 250, from What Not to Wear and The Biggest Loser to Dog Whisperer and Pimp My Ride. In Makeover TV, Brenda R. Weber argues that whether depicting transformatio...

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Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) מאת Arturo Escobar In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many...

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The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela (American Encounters/Global Interactions) מאת Miguel Tinker Salas Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the hi...

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New Theater in America Edward Parone

New Theater in America מאת Edward Parone This is a collection of seven short plays that represent the author's view and new contemporary theater for that time, the nineteen sixties. The seven plays are: Dutchman; The rook; Upstairs, sleeping; In a cold hotel; The nine o'clock mail; Match play; and, Mrs.Dally has a lover. ...

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Twenty Theses on Politics (Latin America in Translation) Enrique Dussel

Twenty Theses on Politics (Latin America in Translation) מאת Enrique Dussel First published in Spanish in 2006, Twenty Theses on Politics is a major statement on political philosophy from Enrique Dussel, one of Latin America’s—and the world’s—most important philosophers, and a founder of the philosophy of liberation. Synthesizing a half-century of his pioneer...

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Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive מאת Johannes Fabian The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the writer, his or her readers, and the people studied. Johannes Fabian, a leading theorist of anthropol...

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The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity מאת Catherine Russell One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905–69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. Little, however, has been written about Naruse in English, and much of the writing about him in Japanese has not been translated into English. With The Cinem...

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Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Objects/Histories) מאת Margo Machida In Unsettled Visions, the activist, curator, and scholar Margo Machida presents a pioneering, in-depth exploration of contemporary Asian American visual art. Machida focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had significantly altered the demographic,...

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The Sopranos (Spin Offs) מאת Dana Polan “In its original run on HBO, The Sopranos mattered, and it matters still,” Dana Polan asserts early in this analysis of the hit show, in which he sets out to clarify the impact and importance of the series in both its cultural and media-industry contexts. A renowned film and TV scholar, P...

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Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement מאת Timothy StoltzfusJost In Health Care at Risk Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a leading expert in health law, weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which many policymakers and analysts are promoting as the answer to the severe access, cost, and quality problems afflicting the American health care system. The ide...

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Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru (Latin America Otherwise) מאת Gonzalo Lamana Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistad...

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The Political Life of Sensation מאת Davide Panagia The taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of filmic images—such sensory perceptions are rarely if ever discussed in relation to democratic theory. In response, Davide Panagia argues that by overlooking sensation political theorists ignore a crucial dimension of political...

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Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop מאת Imani Perry At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here—criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and c...

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Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present (Politics, History, and Culture) מאת Lessie JoFrazier Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation’s history as a site ...

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The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary מאת Erin Graff Zivin While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the questions of how and to what end they are represented have received remarkably little critical attention. Helping to correct this imbalance, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness in late-nineteent...

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Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) מאת Michaeline Crichlow Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination is a major intervention into discussions of Caribbean practices gathered under the rubric of “creolization.” Examining sociocultural, political, and economic transformations in the Caribbean, Michaeline A. Crichlow argues that creolization—c...

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Reconceptualizations of the African Diaspora (Radical History Review, Winter 2009) מאת Erica Ball This special issue of Radical History Review aims to revitalize African diaspora studies by shifting current emphases within the field. The contributors rethink current understandings of African and diaspora as a dispersal of Africans from the African continent via the Atlantic slave trade and offer...

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The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico (American Encounters/Global Interactions) מאת John J.Dwyer In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of U.S. property owners as part of President Lázaro Cárdenas’s land redistribution program. Because no compensation was provided to the Americans a serious crisis, which John J. Dwyer terms “the agrari...

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Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History מאת Milton C.Sernett Harriet Tubman is one of America’s most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History tells the fascinating story of Tubman’s life as an American icon. The distinguished historian Milton...

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Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History מאת Rebecca N. Hill In Men, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N. Hill compares two seemingly unrelated types of leftist protest campaigns: those intended to defend labor organizers from prosecution and those seeking to memorialize lynching victims and stop the practice of lynching. Arguing that these forms of protest are r...

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How to Be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789 מאת Patrick Weil How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France’s foremost historians. First published in France in 2002, it is filled with captivating human dramas, with legal professionals, and with statesmen including L...

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Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage מאת Amit S.Rai Known for its elaborate spectacle of music, dance, costumes, and fantastical story lines, Bollywood cinema is a genre that foregrounds narrative rupture, indeterminacy, and bodily sensation. In Untimely Bollywood, Amit S. Rai argues that the fast-paced, multivalent qualities of contemporary B...

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The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity מאת Heather Levi The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview wrestlers, referees, official...

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Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal מאת Rochona Majumdar An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent change...

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Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France מאת Susan Whitney In Mobilizing Youth, Susan B. Whitney examines how youth moved to the forefront of French politics in the two decades following the First World War. In those years Communists and Catholics forged the most important youth movements in France. Focusing on the competing efforts of the two groups...

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The Life and Traditions of the Red Man: Reading Line: A rediscovered treasure of Native American literature מאת Joseph Nicolar Joseph Nicolar’s The Life and Traditions of the Red Man tells the story of his people from the first moments of creation to the earliest arrivals and eventual settlement of Europeans. Self-published by Nicolar in 1893, this is one of the few sustained narratives in English composed by a mem...

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The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast מאת Janet McIntosh In this theoretically rich exploration of ethnic and religious tensions, Janet McIntosh demonstrates how the relationship between two ethnic groups in the bustling Kenyan town of Malindi is reflected in and shaped by the different ways the two groups relate to Islam. While Swahili and Giriama people...

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Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia (Latin America Otherwise) מאת Joanne Rappaport Although only 2 percent of Colombia’s population identifies as indigenous, that figure belies the significance of the country’s indigenous movement. More than a quarter of the Colombian national territory belongs to indigenous groups, and 80 percent of the country’s mineral resources are locat...

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Machiavelli : The Chief Works and Others, Vol. 1 מאת Nicollò di Bernado deiMachiavelli From praise for the 1965 edition: Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion. Students of the history of political thought owe a particular debt of gratitude to Al...

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Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory (American Encounters/Global Interactions) מאת Scott Laderman In Tours of Vietnam, Scott Laderman demonstrates how tourist literature has shaped Americans’ understanding of Vietnam and projections of United States power since the mid-twentieth century. Laderman analyzes portrayals of Vietnam’s land, history, culture, economy, and people in travel na...

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The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (Next Wave Provocations) מאת Rey Chow Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once it is identified, or so global geopolitics, dominated by the United States since the end of the Se...

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The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru (Latin America Otherwise) מאת Jessaca B.Leinaweaver In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores “child circulation,” informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. At first glance, child circulation appears tantamount to child abandonment. When seen in that light, th...

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Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory מאת Deborah Paredez An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the 1995 death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Pérez. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, Web sites, monuments, biographies, murals, look-alike contests, musicals...

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Nanovision: Engineering the Future מאת Colin Milburn The dawning era of nanotechnology promises to transform life as we know it. Visionary scientists are engineering materials and devices at the molecular scale that will forever alter the way we think about our technologies, our societies, our bodies, and even reality itself. Colin Milburn argues that...

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The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary מאת Erin Graff Zivin While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the question of how--and toward what ends--they are represented has received remarkably little critical attention. Rectifying this omission in literary criticism, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness...

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Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema מאת Negar Mottahedeh Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran’s film industry, in conforming to the Islamic Republic’s system of modesty, had to ensure that women on-screen were veiled from the view of men. This prevented Iranian filmmakers from making use of the desiring gaze, a staple cinematic system of lookin...

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CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting מאת Barry F.Saunders In CT Suite the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shapes social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT Suite, the unit where CT images are made and interpr...

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Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India מאת Ritu Birla In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India’s market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage of commercial and contract laws direc...

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Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal Rochona Majumdar

Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal מאת Rochona Majumdar An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent change...

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Japan’s Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) מאת Walter Skya Japan’s Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war. Bringing to light a wealth of new information, Walter A. Skya demonstrates that whatever other motives the Japanese had for waging war in Asia and the Pacific, for many the war...

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Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense Tracy C.Davis

Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense מאת Tracy C.Davis In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundame...

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The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940 מאת Julian B.Carter In this groundbreaking study, Julian Carter demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the “normal” American. Gilded Age elites defined white civilization as the triumphant achievement of exceptional people hewing ...

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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) מאת Gerald Figal Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind i...

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South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) מאת Jesook Song South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001). Jesook Song argues that while the government proclaimed that it would guarantee all South Ko...

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Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Gerhard Schweppenhäuser

Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction (Post-Contemporary Interventions) מאת Gerhard Schweppenhäuser Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) was one of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers. In light of two pivotal developments—the rise of fascism, which culminated in the Holocaust, and the standardization of popular culture as a commodity indispensable to contemporary capitalism—Adorno sou...

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Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley מאת Shalini Shankar Desi Land is Shalini Shankar's lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or "Desis," define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology. Betwe...

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Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition מאת Bhaskar Sarkar What remains of the “national” when the nation unravels at the birth of the independent state? The political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947 led to a social cataclysm in which roughly one million people died and ten to twelve million were displaced. Combining film...

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Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 מאת Tim Lawrence Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to the downtown New York music scene during the 1970s and 1980s. With the exception of a few dance recordings, including "Is It All Over My Face?" ...

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Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema מאת Joanna Page There has been a significant surge in recent Argentine cinema, with an explosion in the number of films made in the country since the mid-1990s. Many of these productions have been highly acclaimed by critics in Argentina and elsewhere. What makes this boom all the more extraordinary is its coincidi...

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Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History מאת Amelie Hastie In Cupboards of Curiosity Amelie Hastie rethinks female authorship within film history by expanding the historical archive to include dollhouses, scrapbooks, memoirs, cookbooks, and ephemera. Focusing on women who worked during the silent-film era, Hastie reveals how female stars, directors, ...

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Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity (Console-ing Passions) מאת Brenda R.Weber In 2004, roughly 25 makeover-themed reality shows aired on U.S. television. By 2009, there were more than 250, from What Not to Wear and The Biggest Loser to Dog Whisperer and Pimp My Ride. In Makeover TV, Brenda R. Weber argues that whether depicting transformatio...

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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) מאת Karen Ho Financial collapses--whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market--are often explained as the inevitable results of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to sh...

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Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Objects/Histories) מאת Margo Machida In Unsettled Visions the activist, curator, and scholar Margo Machida presents a pioneering, in-depth exploration of contemporary Asian American visual art. Machida focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had significantly altered the demographic, cultura...

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Violence As Obscenity: Limiting the Media’s First Amendment Protection (Constitutional Conflicts) מאת Kevin W.Saunders This timely and accessible volume takes a fresh approach to a question of increasing public concern: whether or not the federal government should regulate media violence. In Violence as Obscenity, Kevin W. Saunders boldly calls into question the assumption that violent material is protected b...

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The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma (Politics, History, and Culture) מאת Ron Eyerman In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his body. The murder set off a series of reactio...

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Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States (New Americanists) מאת Christopher Castiglia In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens’ democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democratic publics while taking divergent views into account. Castiglia contends that citizens of the early United States were encouraged to locate t...

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Mad Toy מאת Roberto Arlt Roberto Arlt, celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American "boom" and "postboom" novelists such as Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende. Mad Toy, acclaimed by many as Arlt's best novel, is set against the c...

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Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances מאת Aimee Carrillo Rowe Like the complex systems of man-made power lines that transmit electricity and connect people and places, feminist alliances are elaborate networks that have the potential to provide access to institutional power and to transform relations. In Power Lines, Aimee Carrillo Rowe explores the for...

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Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949 מאת Erick D.Langer Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were key to the penetration of national societies into the regions and indigenous lands that the nascent republics claimed as their jurisdictions. In Expecting Pears from ...

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Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary Paul Rabinow

Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary מאת Paul Rabinow In this compact volume two of anthropology’s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. James D. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and el...

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Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications (Politics, History, and Culture) מאת Ivan Ermakoff What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors’ miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odd...

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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) Karen Ho

Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) מאת Karen Ho Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to s...

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Life between Two Deaths, 1989–2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties (Post-Contemporary Interventions) מאת Phillip E. Wegner Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fostered a unique consciousness and represented a moment of im...

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Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) Christopher T.Nelson

Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) מאת Christopher T.Nelson Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and ...

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Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image מאת Roger Hallas In Reframing Bodies, Roger Hallas illuminates the capacities of film and video to bear witness to the cultural, political, and psychological imperatives of the AIDS crisis. He explains how queer films and videos made in response to the AIDS epidemics in North America, Europe, Australia, and S...

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Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction (Post-Contemporary Interventions) מאת Gerhard Schweppenhäuser Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) was one of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers. In light of two pivotal developments—the rise of fascism, which culminated in the Holocaust, and the standardization of popular culture as a commodity indispensable to contemporary capitalism—Adorno sou...